ArticleCancers2023
Symptom Clusters in Survivorship and Their Impact on Ability to Work among Cancer Survivors.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Symptom phenotypes and their associations with fear of cancer recurrence and social support among breast cancer patients: a latent profile analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Factors associated with health-related quality of life in survivors of childhood-onset and adult-onset cancer compared to controls.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Multidomain predictors of long-term work disability in late survivorship after head and neck cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Symptom Clusters and Symptom Burden in Cancer Survivors.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- A latent profile analysis of the pain-fatigue-sleep disturbance symptom clusters in postoperative cervical cancer patients: a multicenter cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The role of cognitive impairments in patients' return to work and quality of working life after treatment of breast or gynecologic cancer.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Relationship between Cancer and Intention to Leave Work among Older Workers: A Cross-Sectional Internet-Based Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- It's about time: mitigating cancer-related cognitive impairments through findings from computational models of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.BMC cancer · 2024Article
- The mediating role of depressive, anxiety, and physical symptoms on work ability index in employed women with breast cancer: a prospective study from Croatia.Croatian medical journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundCancer survivors often experience a range of symptoms after treatment which can impact their quality of life. Symptoms may cluster or co-occur. We aimed to investigate how symptoms and symptom clusters impact the ability to work among cancer survivors.
methodsWe used symptom severity data and ability to work data routinely collected from cancer survivors attending a survivorship clinic after primary treatment with curative intent. We defined symptom clusters using single linkage and a threshold on the rescaled distances of <10. We then conducted a logistic regression to examine how symptoms and symptom clusters were related to the ability to work.
resultsWe analysed data from 561 cancer survivors, mean age 58 years and 1.5 years post diagnosis, with mixed diagnoses including breast (40.5%), colorectal (32.3%), and haematological cancers (15.3%). Limitations to work ability were reported by 34.9% of participants. Survivors experiencing pain, emotional, and cognitive symptom clusters were 14-17% more likely to report limitations in their ability to work. Older survivors and those with a higher stage disease were more likely to report limitations in their ability to work.
conclusionA better understanding and management of symptom severity and symptom clusters may help the sizable proportion of cancer survivors experiencing symptoms to participate in work after treatment.
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